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Recycling and disposing of unwanted stuff

If you’re actively reducing your stuff, you’ve undoubtedly wondered how you can find a new home for usable items or how to properly dispose of others. Below is a not-comprehensive list of resources in Minneapolis/St. Paul. There may be similar resources where you live.

Art, craft, and some office suppliesArtScraps Reuse Store, St. Paul (call ahead to see what they can use)

Community oganics compostingMacGrove organics site offers 24/7 access for people who live or work in St. Paul (by recycling and using this organics site, we have reduced our household garbage by about 85%)

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I would like to encourage anyone on the minimalist/simplifying journey to donate any unwanted items to charities that need support for their clients who may be in poverty. Charities host fundraisers and other events that provide clients with gifts or programs and services to enhance their well-being. The most joyful thing I have ever done in my minimalism lifestyle is to make an offering to a non-profit organization. There are many of these entities all over the world that help people in poverty, single parents, those with mental illness with or without addictions etc. Please give wisely-some may even offer a charitable tax receipt for in kind donations. They do important work in our society, so can you.